{"id":"res-job-employee-review-themes","audience":"job-seekers","category":"research","technique":"grounding","title":"Find the real patterns in employee reviews, with review numbers","free":false,"task":"You're deciding whether to apply to Orchard Lane Credit Union and pasted 8 employee reviews. You want exactly 3 numbered themes in plain text, each mentioned in at least 2 reviews, each under 12 words, and each ending with the review numbers in parentheses, like \"(2, 5)\". Skip one-off complaints and add nothing else.","materialLabel":"Employee reviews you copied (attached to your prompt automatically)","material":"ORCHARD LANE CREDIT UNION - employee reviews (copied from a review site, 2026)\n\nR1 (Teller, 2 yrs): \"Supportive branch manager. Schedules are posted 3 weeks out, which helps with childcare. Pay is below the big banks.\"\nR2 (Member Service Rep): \"Training was thorough, two full weeks before I touched a register. Pay could be better.\"\nR3 (Loan Officer): \"Leadership talks about growth but promotions go to outside hires. Good 401k match.\"\nR4 (Teller): \"Honestly the CEO is out of touch, he drives a sports car to a credit union lol. Also short-staffed on Saturdays.\"\nR5 (Call Center): \"Two weeks of paid training was great. Saturday shifts are always short-handed.\"\nR6 (Teller, 4 yrs): \"Pay is low for the area. Manager is fair. I've been passed over for promotion twice while they hired from outside.\"\nR7 (Member Service Rep): \"Schedules come out weeks in advance. Nice coworkers.\"\nR8 (Branch Ops): \"Saturday staffing is a problem every week.\"","rules":[{"type":"numberedItems","count":3},{"type":"plainText"}],"mistakes":[{"title":"Not asking for review numbers","why":"The AI summarizes 'what employees say' with no way to check which reviews said it.","fix":"Add: \"End each theme with the review numbers, like (2, 5).\"","checks":["r1"]},{"title":"Treating a rant as a pattern","why":"Colorful one-off comments stick out, and the AI may promote them to a theme.","fix":"Say: \"Only themes mentioned in at least 2 reviews.\"","checks":["r0","r1"]},{"title":"Getting a verdict","why":"The AI ends with whether you should apply, which you didn't ask for.","fix":"Say: \"Output only the 3 themes.\"","checks":["r2"]},{"title":"Not saying how many","why":"The AI decides the length itself and usually returns more themes than you can use.","fix":"Be exact: \"exactly 3 numbered themes.\"","checks":["numberedItems"]},{"title":"Getting markdown back","why":"AI defaults to bold labels and headings, which show up as stray symbols in your job search tracker.","fix":"Ask for \"plain text, no bold, no headings.\"","checks":["plainText"]}],"promptHints":[{"label":"Says exactly how many","patterns":["\\b(3|three)\\b.{0,25}(theme|pattern|line)","exactly \\d+"]},{"label":"Asks for review numbers","patterns":["review numbers?","\\(\\d","cite","which reviews"]},{"label":"Requires repeat mentions","patterns":["at least (2|two)","more than one","repeated","one.?off"]},{"label":"Limits each line","patterns":["\\d+\\s*words","short"]},{"label":"Asks for plain text","patterns":["plain","no bold","no markdown","no formatting","no headings"]}],"hint":"A pattern needs more than one voice. Tell the AI how many reviews must mention a theme, and make it show which ones.","rubricLabels":["Each of the 3 themes is backed by at least 2 reviews in the list (for example: low pay R1, R2, R6; short-staffed Saturdays R4, R5, R8; promotions go to outside hires R3, R6; thorough training R2, R5; schedules posted early R1, R7)","Each theme ends with review numbers in parentheses that actually mention it, and no theme is a one-off (such as the CEO's car or the 401k match)","Outputs only the 3 numbered theme lines: no intro, no verdict on whether to apply, no quotes"]}